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Flint Atlantic Capital invests in dialysis in Rwanda

The Nigeria-based fund Flint Atlantic, which specialises in healthcare start-ups, co-invested with US-based Polaris Capital in the Rwandan dialysis group Africa Healthcare Network (AHN) last week. AHN is growing fast but the market is constrained by labour shortages and affordability. We discussed AHN’s potential to broaden access with Nneka Ezeigwe, vice president at Flint.
November 14, 2016

Profits – and share price – fall at Life Healthcare

Shares in the South African group Life Healthcare were flat this morning, after falling last Friday following news of an 11.6% fall in after-tax profit in FY 2016 results. Margins fell to 27.5% in Southern Africa and 10.2% in Poland as the rand depreciated and the Polish government cut cardiac tariffs by 17.4% this year. Operating performance, however, was largely strong, contributing to a 12% increase in sales to R16.4bn (US$1.14bn) and 6.6% in EBITDA to R4.3bn (US$0.3bn).
November 14, 2016

France’s second and third largest hospital operators in talks for merger

France's second largest hospital operator Elsan is in talks to acquire MédiPôle Partenaires, the country's third largest group, in the first half of 2017. The deal would create France’s largest private hospital network with €2.2bn in revenues –challenging Ramsay’s position as leader in the country.
November 14, 2016

FREE BLOG More woe for care giants

The bigger the care home group, the worse its performance, is the broad rule from data we've sourced from the UK’s Care Quality Commission, which sheds light on the country’s on-going social care crisis.
November 11, 2016

Life close to UK acquisition

Life Healthcare, the big South African hospital group with an operation in Poland and stake in Max Healthcare, the big Indian hospital group, is close to purchasing an asset in the UK, says a source close to the deal. South African analysts say it’s looking at a niche market with a component of public sector outsourcing. We look at who.
November 11, 2016

Cinven still in the race for Unilabs?

Although Cinven is reportedly out of the picture for French reference lab Cerba, one analyst says it is likely that the group is still looking at buying clinical diagnostics player Unilabs.
November 11, 2016

Reading the future of the European labs sector

The European diagnostic lab sector in 2016 presents opportunities, but also substantial threats. Apart from seizing market share from competitors, there are four ways that labs can grow sales – consolidation/rationalisation, diversification into new test groups, outsourcing and finally moving into other areas - be that imaging or outpatient specialty care.
November 11, 2016

Spotlight on labs: India and Brazil

We look at labs in India, and profile the big lab and imaging groups in Brazil. Future articles will also look at the sector in China and across SE Asia and Africa.
November 11, 2016

Interview: Dharminder Nagar, Paras Healthcare – Affordable healthcare for India’s middle class

India-based Paras Healthcare is specifically targeting India’s flourishing middle classes and looking to provide affordable healthcare to a section of the population it says is being overlooked by bigger players. We speak to managing director Dharminder Nagar, who has made the journey from doctor to hospital administrator, and now entrepreneur, about how to succeed in India, and Paras plans for the future.
November 11, 2016

Private equity house auction for Cerba

Private equity house PAI has finally kicked off an auction for Cerba, after talks with Cinven which owns Synlab broke down. But how will the arrival, probably within 5-10 years, of new primary care POCT devices affect values?
November 11, 2016
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